Ready Or Not, Here Comes Mobile Commerce
With three times as many mobile-phone subscribers as Internet users worldwide, Cisco expects m-commerce to follow an adoption pattern similar to that of cell phones.
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Jockey Bares New Apparel Catalog
New catalog designed to promote Jockey as a lifestyle brand.
May Sales Figures Give Multichannel Merchants Hope
Victoria’s Secret Direct, Neiman Marcus Group, and Abercrombie & Fitch saw sales increases.
Talbots Slashes Staff 9%, Gets Credit
Womens apparel retailer company expects workforce reduction to save company about $14 million annually.
Airgas to Acquire Oilind Safety
Airgas, a marketer of specialty gases, welding and safety equipment has agreed to acquire the assets and operations of Energy Safety Services, doing business as Oilind Safety.
Catalog Choice: We Aren’t Out to Kill Direct Mail
The last thing Catalog Choice
Sales Jump for J. Crew
Apparel cataloger/retailer J. Crew had plenty of good news to report from its first quarter ended May 3. The New York-based company
Bloomingdale’s to bag By Mail books
Say goodbye to the Bloomingdale’s By Mail catalog. The apparel cataloger/retailer merchant plans to phase out the title by early 2009. It will instead
Red Envelope finds a buyer maybe
It looks like gifts cataloger Red Envelope, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on April 17, will be sold to Creative Catalogs Corp. The
Oriental Trading’s new chief
What does a guy whose strengths are high-tech product lines, Website savvy and international marketing know about running a low-end gifts and novelties